Chapter XVIII: Letter XIX: A.d. 385

VIGILIUS, to whom this letter is addressed, is supposed by
the Benedictine Editors to have been the Bishop of Trent,
(Tridentum,) who is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology. He
had written to S. Ambrose, on his consecration as Bishop, to
ask his guidance and instruction, and S. Ambrose replies, first
with brief general directions, somewhat resembling those of